Eliso Virsaladze

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Eliso Virsaladze
Background information
BornSeptember 14, 1942
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Instrument(s)piano
Websitehttps://elisovirsaladze.com

Eliso Virsaladze (Georgian: ელისო ვირსალაძე; born September 14, 1942) is a Georgian pianist.

Biography

She was born in

postgraduate student at the Moscow Conservatory with Yakov Zak. She has also played for A. Goldenweiser and N. Perelman
many times.

She won the 3rd prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962 and the 1st prize in the Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, Germany in 1966.

Sviatoslav Richter considered her the best female pianist of her time, and the best interpreter of Schumann.

Considered a great pianist,

Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Florence, Italy. She is also a distinguished visiting professor at the Tokyo College of Music.[3]
In addition, regularly gives masterclasses all over the world.

Among her most outstanding students are:

A. Zuev, J.H.Park, T. Yang, D. Shishkin
.

Since 1975, she has served on the jury of many well-known international competitions, including: Queen Elisabeth Competition, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, R. Schumann International Competition, Géza Anda International Piano Competition, International Tchaikovsky Competition, Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, Tbilisi International Piano Competition and many others.

Eliso Virsaladze speaks 8 languages:

Polish.[citation needed
]

Orchestras and chamber music

Since 1966, Eliso Virsaladze has given recitals and appeared with major international orchestras under

Kyrill Kondrashin, Riccardo Muti, Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Sanderling, Mariss Jansons, Marin Alsop, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Mikhail Pletnev, Vakhtang and Jansug Kakhidze
and many others.

Virsaladze enjoys playing

Borodin and the Taneyev Quartets. She is an interpreter of Schumann, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Chopin and so many others. Live Classics
has recorded most of her broad repertoire.

She was awarded the title of

People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1971, and of People's Artist of the USSR
in 1989.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0
  2. ^ "персоналии – Вирсаладзе Элисо Константиновна". www.mosconsv.ru. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Tokyo College of Music". Retrieved 24 March 2024.

External links

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